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【IMPORTANT】How to identify the bootleg digivices

There were many bootleg digivices in China at the time digimon is popular.
All of us in China have bought the fake digivices before.
Now those fake things flow into international market, so you may get a fake one with a high price.
I have wrote an article in China's discussion board before, to tell everybody how to identify the bootleg digivices.
When I get on ebay today, I'm surprised that there are 3 fake Japanese D-3, and a lot of people are placing bids!
So I try to share my article here, to help everyone find them out.

(My English is not good, please tell me if I don't tell well. It's welcome that you share this article with other forms to let more people know.)

Here I don't discuss those bad fakes that you know they are bootleg when you see them in your first eye.
What I tell here is the ones that looks really like the original. You may think those are good ones if you don't have the way to check them.

================================================== =========First of all, I'll tell you what kind of digivices have fake ones that look like the original.

Japanese Digivice (No fake)US Digivice (have fake, all are version 2)

Japanese D-3 (Have fake)US D-3 (No fake)

D-ark(Have fake)D-power(No fake)

D-Scanner(Have fake)D-tector(No fake)

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How to indentify fake digivice version 2

All the color in version 2 could have the chance to be a fake one.
The colors of version 2 are:
Transparent no color body + Blue button.
Black body + White button.
Purple body + Yellow button.
greenish yellow body + Purple button.
Glow in the dark body + White button.

It's easy to tell which digivice ver2 is a fake one.
Please see the wire on the back.
The left one is original, the wire goes from top to below.
The right one is fake. The wire stays at the lower part.

About the content of the fake digivice ver2:
1. You can't push the button to beat a digimon in the mini card game.
2. When you walk 50,000 steps, there is no auto - Mega evolution action.

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How to indentify fake Japanese D-3

All the color could have a fake ones.

Colors and content in the original D-3:
Version1: V-mon and Wormmon
Version 1 Colors: White and blue; Blue, green and red; Black and white.

About the content of the fake Japanese D-3:
It's really bad of the fake one if you have played both.User Experience: Bad.Sound effect: Bad. Try to copy the original one but failed, sounds strange.Shaking: Bad. It's hard to make it count steps.Digimental detect: Some fake D-3 can't find anything because there is no coil on the board. But some can.Enemy: lack of enemies, even less than the original.

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How to indentify fake Japanese D-ark

The fake d-ark is extremely like an original one.
All the colors could have a fake one.

Details that could tell the fake one with the original one:

1. Screen.
Original: Only the Ultimate D-ark have a round of graduation. The Others is just all black.
Fake: Some have a round of graduation on the screen even if it is not an Ultimate D-ark.

2. The sticker on the clip.
Original: Different colors have different numbers.
Fake: All the number is the same. Writes: 77279 or 00166.*The number 77279 is copied from the original White and red D-3 ver2.*The number 00166 is copied from the original Silver and red D-ark ver1.

Here is the correct number on the original D-ARK digivice.
Please check before you buy a D-ARK.

3. Card Slash
Original: Only slash a card will work. Shaking is no use.
Fake: When you need to slash a card, you could shake it to replace a slash.

About the content of the fake Japanese D-ark:The fake d-ark is really a good one, it just look like an original one.

Sound effect: Nearly the same as the original one, but still some different.
The winning music is missed and replaced by the happy music.Shaking: Bad. Hard to make it count steps.Enemies and maps: The same as the original one. But some bitmaps of the digimon have bugs.*The ImperialDramon Paladin mode in the fake Ultimate D-ark is replaced by the ImperialDramon Fight mode.Link system: Can not link to the WSC.

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How to indentify fake Japanese D-scannerOnly version3 have fake ones.
The fake scanner is nearly the same as the original one.

Details that could tell the fake one with the original one:

1. the number on the clip.
YES THE NUMBER IS IMPORTANT!!!
Original: Red:12024 Blue: 12034
Fake:03021

2. Screen
The fake one is very dark.

↓the screen of the fake D-Scanner.

3. When you reset your D-Scanner and load the SAVE DATA.
Original: Will load the data.
Fake: Will not load the data and start with WIND.

About the content of the fake Japanese D-scanner:Barcode Scanning: Only two result will come out in 1 bar code in the original one(one from each side).
The fake one comes out randomly.Lucemon battle: Runs each time and return with the same hp last time it ran in the original one.
The fake one will reset to full hp so you will never defeat it.

That's all!!

Last edited by donald; 06-12-2015 at 07:39 AM.
Reason: Add the d-scanner indentification.